The Sims

These life hacks will probably never have to be used again in all of human history, but the nostalgia is fun. If these had you pining for a simpler time of dial-up internet and bigger pants, then check these nostalgic images out.

The Sims does everything it can to try and "simulate" real life. In this case, a recent glitch has resulted in spawning what looks like a social services worker. This social services worker proceeds to take the kids away if you're not doing a good job at looking after them in your game. The Sims Wiki says that the social worker "will take away a baby, toddler, child, or pet if their needs drop too low, or in later games, if there are no more older Sims remaining in the household (i.e. due to death). They also will come to deliver adopted kids to their new family."

Numerous players are encountering this new glitch when their toddlers go to pick up a tablet, and then won't put it down, which results in them eventually disappearing into nothingness.

Some of these are so twisted we almost feel bad for laughing at them. Is The Sims video game merely shedding a disturbing spotlight on how wildly depraved, immoral, and genuinely creative people can get, when the sky is pretty much the limit?

Something about The Sims compels people to embrace their vaguely wicked, entirely hilarious sides to create some literal nightmares. We're not sure if we want to cry or cheer for humanity when it comes to these.

We can ALWAYS count on The Sims players to leave us utterly bewildered, if not traumatized, when it comes to creating hellish scenarios in an otherwise 'innocent' video game. These morbid geniuses took dark humor to new and alarming heights.

What a headline...but then again, this is THE SIMS; and we'd expect nothing short of a delightfully dark sense of humor from gamers when it comes to how much they can generally f**k with their Sims' existence. Our speedrunner champion of the hour's commentary in this video is also hilarious: the sheer amount of cold calculated focus is impressive and mildly alarming, all at once.

I need more of these Sims 'dumps' in my life, dude. If only I could've better document/been aware of how outright perverse and seven kinds of crazy this game was, while playing it as a kid. Because I absolutely don't play it as a current self-proclaimed manchild. *laughs in sims*

While most of us spent our adolescence torturing Sims by, say, putting them in a swimming pool and taking the ladder away, others simply enjoy the creepy world of these gibberish-talking people simulations.